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Date:      Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:43:13 +0200
From:      Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xterm stops output
Message-ID:  <20050430194313.GC17052@voodoo.oberon.net>
In-Reply-To: <d50mmn$hu0$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <d50mmn$hu0$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>

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On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 07:35:51PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE/alpha, xterm-201.
>
> Lately I suffer from the problem that xterm very sporadically appears
> to stop output, possibly until a key is pressed.  This is not readily
> reproducible and overall very rare.  It seems to happen comparatively
> often in trn.  Half a screen is painted and then output just stops.
> I need to hit a key, usually ^R for repainting, to get a proper
> display.  It has also happened for non-curses cases, such as the
> output of ifconfig.  Never in vi.
>
> I have not payed too much attention yet, since it occurs only
> sporadically, I'm usually eager to continue with what I was doing,
> and it took me a while to realize that there really is an issue.
> In fact, I'm still not certain there is.
>
> If my memory serves correctly, this has started since I upgraded
> from xterm-200 to xterm-201.
>
> Is anybody else seeing unusual behavior from xterm?

Yup, it's known problem, will be fixed soon in oncoming 202 release.

-Kirill


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